In nearly four decades I’ve used a few different mannequins to display my work and to use to photograph my jackets. For the past years, I’ve had nice rounded ones (for a long time I had some great wooden ones that looked like giant paper dolls) which had no arms. Finally, last week I Googled…
I waited years until I chanced upon an opportunity to buy a Brother knitting machine and a much anticipated Garter Carriage. I’d been a Singer knitter (they don’t have garter carriages) for about 25 years when this happened and I was so excited and looked forward to working garter stitches into my designs. This pink…
Winter and I’m working through my custom orders. I didn’t to a Christmas or ‘Holiday’ show as I have done over so many of the past 32 years so I have’t a lot of pending work. That could be good, no one likes to have no work, but it gives me more space, makes me…
Finally some warmer weather! Stepping from my front door to my studio door the other day I actually though ‘oh how warm it is’…. I guess minus 1 Celsius is warm after weeks of minus what seems like a squillion!!!!! While hunting for something in my studio (that can take weeks!) I came across a…